Increasingly, policy makers and service managers, planners and practitioners are encouraged, and often mandated, to work together to achieve better outcomes for children and young people. The momentum towards formally ...

This research study is being conducted as part of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre’s
evaluation of the Development and Mainstreaming Programme for Prevention, Partnership and
Family Support (PPFS) that Tusla, ...

Our experience in practice with parents and families and conversations with other practitioners in contact with young people and parents suggests that the aggressive behaviour of children and adolescents towards their ...

The North Dublin Differential Response Model (DRM) was developed in the aftermath of a seminar held by the then Children¿s Act Advisory Board in May 2008. This seminar involved a series of presentations, including presentations ...

The aim of this study was to explore how young people who have been in care, and their carers,
conceptualise permanence and stability. This study focuses on outcomes for permanence and stability
for children in long-term ...

This study provides a mapping
of parenting support service provision in Ireland. It outlines the policy context, the existing evidence base and is informed by the best available data. It details the delivery ...

This research is part of a study to examine the extent to which parental participation is currently embedded in Irish organisations providing parenting support. The study is part of a wider programme of ...

The purpose of the research is to ascertain the expectations for the role of Parenting Support Champions (PSC) from those who have volunteered for the position. Reasons why respondents volunteered for the role of PSC, ...

This research is part of a study to examine the process, implementation and outcomes of the Parenting Support Champions Project, which is one element of the Parenting Support and Parental Participation work stream. This ...

Child to parent violence (CPV) is an emerging problem that is coming more frequently to the attention of practitioners in a wide variety of settings. This paper describes the ways in which the Probation Service and Le ...

In this article, we describe some of the difficulties some parents and therapists can encounter when faced with child to parent violence. We hope to show that an adapted Non Violent Resistance Programme seems to restore ...